The Jungle

4.7

Genre: Crime Documentary Drama
Run time: 22 min
Premiere: 1967. January 1.

Director: Charlie 'Brown' Davis Jimmy 'Country' Robinson David 'Bat' Williams
Starring: Reginald 'Reggie' Ackridge Jimmy 'Country' Robinson David 'Bat' Williams Charlie 'Brown' Davis

In 1967, a group of African-American teenagers in Philadelphia made a hybrid documentary/dramatization of their lives in the 12th and Oxford Street gang. In 1968, The Jungle, one of the first films in the US directed by youth detailing the inner workings of their own gang, went on to win the Documentary Film Award at the Festival de Popoli, Italy.